True to its name, Star Wars is known for getting its fans into heated battles. While many fights are started over small series details—Did the Kessel Run timing metrics make sense? (No.) Did Han shoot first? (Sure.) Was Luke drinking alien milk or alien semen in that last movie? (Depends on that day’s nipple.)—others center on key movie motifs that are impossible to ignore. Like, for instance, the Jedi warriors’ trademark robes.
Author (and A.V. Club contributor) Dennis DiClaudio addressed this last subject on Twitter recently, airing what’s turned out to be a pretty contentious viewpoint: that the Jedi costumes post-A New Hope are stupid.
His opinion makes a lot of sense. Basing the design of the universe’s famous magic knights on the shitty rags one of them wore while hiding out in the first movie doesn’t really seem like a great idea. As the thread’s responses point out, it also shows a lack of creativity in a film series that’s meant to be appealing, at least in part, for its wild imagination.
Rising up to counterbalance this great swell of darkness in the Force, illustrator Kevin Tong brings a convincing rebuttal to DiClaudio’s robe-pinions.